The minds of Tumblr just shoot wild thoughts around like a pinball machine, resulting in some nuggets of gold from Tumblr's busy brains. You've got off-the-wall movie ideas, quizzical musings on history, intriguing observations, and strange anecdotes. There are too many comedy gems from the world of Tumblr.
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Someone on AskReddit asked for people to share the funniest historical facts that they know. The resulting insights paint a picture of just how weird the world is that we live in, and how absurdly worked up people can get themselves, when it comes to warring over seemingly meaningless stuff.
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Everyone loves a bad joke. Especially when it's about movies being ridiculous, sometimes. There's just something about bad jokes that help us not take everything so seriously. And when you start taking it less seriously, all of a sudden laughter arises.
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Ah, yes, we love the old Scottish Twitter. It's such a wonderful place of cultural gems from Scottish people that are talking about...who knows what? Honestly. Some of these we're not even sure what's being said. But the confusion is kind of the best part. And it's really fun to try and read them out loud.
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This employee decided to take their petty revenge by sending Karen on a seemingly meaningless mission of driving 50 unnecessary miles. It's amazing how many bumps in the road can pop up when people decide to adopt a rude attitude toward another person, who is just working their job and trying to be helpful.
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Someone on AskReddit asked for people to describe the most expensive mistakes they've ever made. Sometimes you just mess up, and the costs that result from that fail can skyrocket. We all make mistakes. Hopefully the next mistake doesn't take too much out of the wallet.
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This kid was blown away by the realization that his dad was driving the passing train. A pretty cool moment!
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That smiling anime guy lingers forever in the minds of anyone who grew up watching the title sequence of Malcolm in the Middle. It's from a 1998 anime called Nazca about people who find out that they're reincarnated souls of ancient warriors. Anyway here's smiling headband guy killing a dude with an umbrella.
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Must've felt pretty good to make John Cleese laugh like that.
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Some people might find this dude's mission (a successful one at that) to spy on scammers more satisfying than ASMR. Jim is truly a hero of some kind.
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This Pizza Hut employee decided to return a customer's rather ridiculous question, with a ridiculous answer of their own. It would appear that that decision resulted in some brain short circuiting, and the customer ultimately taking offense. Hopefully the Pizza Hut employee managed to take some fun out of it.
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Someone on AskReddit asked for tattoo artists to describe their experiences with rejecting people's tattoo requests. Sometimes the tattoo artist ends up being a kind of gatekeeper, from letting the stupid spontaneous decisions from getting through.
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Are you bored of seeing the same mainstream products, restaurants and entertainment over and over again? Well people are working around the clock to achieve that same brand recognition without having to pay pesky licensing fees. These desperate yet charming knockoff brands put smiles on our faces, even if the products themselves make no sense.
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This person had the misfortune of hiring Karen, who found herself constantly sidetracked with a variety of intriguing excuses. After being let go, she topped it off by using them as a reference. They gave a polite, yet clear message as to their ex-employee's behavior. Sometimes new hires just can't pull it together, like these new hires that got fired on the first day.
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With just a little bit of creative or even unintentional camera angles, stuff can start to look like other stuff. Here are some real life optical illusions that might have your brain doing some double takes. So give your eyes a workout and look at some stuff that might not exactly make a whole lot of sense right away.
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Public restrooms are an interesting thing. It's a public place designed to facilitate the most private moments of day-to-day life. The latent tension and long list of expectations in a public restroom make them inherently funny places. Understandably, strange things happen in public restrooms. The artists and laymen who create bathroom graffiti are the unsung poets of our age.
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Mike the Manager hit his limits with this problem employee, and decided to take action. Specifically, he went ahead and got the problem employee promoted to a team where she'd either get fired or quit. Pretty brilliant stuff, Mike.
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This company tried to turn their lame offer into a competition, but they asked precisely the wrong person to comply. This business owner in particular has had some memorable interactions with folks like this private school that wanted upgrades before their own charity, this treasurer of who couldn't comprehend a payment plan, or this client who refused to understand what having a broken arm means.
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With the Coronavirus sending various parts of the world's population into a full panic, there is some strange behavior afoot. Strange, or in this case, apparently it's to be expected. Yes, this Tumblr thread highlights how the Coronavirus lockdown in Italy, inspired people to clear the shelves of pasta, except for the penne lische.
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This is one of those fails that might just manage to make people feel a bit better about their most mindless, embarrassing moments. Sometimes we fall below a conscious state, and kind of just go autopilot, and dumb stuff happens. It's okay, whatever. Sounds like in this situation, the dude forgot that Mentos and Diet Coke are a cocktail for foaming at the mouth.
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Tinder is the place for people to bust out the very best and worst of their cheesy pickup lines. Sometimes people fail in spectacular fashion, while other times they manage to defy our expectations for what we thought was possible, in terms of pickup lines that'd work. The online world of dating apps is a strange one, indeed.
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Someone on AskReddit asked for people to share their most hilarious and outright ridiculous experiences with witnessing other people not understanding how to operate everyday objects. Confusion can strike in the most seemingly of obvious situations. Sometimes people's brains take a break, and they forget how to operate.
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Good old Scottish Twitter never lets us down when it comes to portraying the culture and its seemingly incomprehensible jargon. For fun, just try to read these in your best Scottish accent.
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These food horrors defy what some people might expect when it comes to pairing certain foods with others. Have you really ever experienced life until you've eaten cereal out of a bell pepper? Obviously, no. Or maybe you're finding yourself curious about how ketchup tastes in a glass of milk. There's a bright idea.
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He looks like he just got off work from teaching 8th grade chemistry. This is Kenneth Petrie of the band Mr Spanky and the HipThrusters delivering a particularly awesome solo. The look doesn't exactly match the sound.
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This kid's just trying to tell his mom that money doesn't matter. Apparently he was busy passing out money to all the kids at school.
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Some of the more infamous moments of Orson Welles professional oeuvre came when he gave into the world of commercials. For the uninitiated, Welles acted in ads for stuff from peas to cement, and he was featured in a string of successful Paul Masson wine commercials between 1978 and 1981. Most notably, it's speculated that a few extra drinks at lunch led to the set of wondrous outtakes in this ad for Paul Masson's French Champagne.
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We love nothing more than a scammer losing to logic. It's a beautiful thing, really. In this case, a dude gets contacted by a scammer bro on the old Instagram, and decides to have some fun with him. Nice touch with The Simpsons reference too!
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Whether it's being so upset that they lose their capacity for rationality, actually wanting to believe a joke headline, or just poor reading comprehension, there is an embarrassing number of sorely mistaken people not getting satire out there. Sometimes someone will read an obvious joke and think that they're doing everyone a favor by calling it fake news. It's half funny and half disappointing. We've got people believing in time travel, wrestler cruelty, and everything else.
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